by Team LEISA India | Jan 5, 2021 | Agroecology, Articles, ICT
NaPanta is a free to download ‘Agricultural crop management’ mobile application. Available on the Android platform, it currently has over 1,17,000 users (farmers) from across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In December 2016, Hyderabad-based Naveen Kumar decided to...
by Team LEISA India | Jan 5, 2021 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Farm on wheels, an initiative to sell local produce has enabled the farmer groups to access diverse local markets in a decentralized manner. In doing so this initiative has set an example to all other farmer groups collaborating with NESFAS in Meghalaya and encouraged...
by Team LEISA India | Jan 5, 2021 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
The COVID-19 virus has jarred many people out of the illusion that globalised, corporate food is safe and secure. Yet, many people don’t know what to do about it. Some have taken up backyard gardening and ‘buying local’, practices that are important for local food...
by Team LEISA India | Jan 5, 2021 | Agroecology, Articles, Horticulture
As the World grapples with the devastating consequences of the spread of the novel coronavirus, nations are faced with multiple questions that go well beyond the direct impact of contracting the disease. We are dealing with massive loss of livelihoods, unemployment,...
by Team LEISA India | Jan 5, 2021 | Agroecology, Articles, Women
“We knew we needed a space to save our native varieties of seeds and transmit the traditional knowledge of farming which is agroecological, which does not harm nature,” says Chukki Nanjundaswamy, coordinator of Amrita Bhoomi near Bangalore, Karnataka – a peasant...
by Team LEISA India | Dec 18, 2020 | Articles
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